Nekusar by Snicks413

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis Group Slug strategy helmed by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The plan centers on deploying draw-punishing permanents and repeatedly casting symmetric wheel spells like Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, and Dark Deal. By turning card draw into lethal damage, the deck punishes opponents for holding cards while stripping away their long-term setup. Dense two-mana artifact ramp ensures Nekusar arrives on Turn 4, enabling a critical wheel on Turn 5 that deals 21 table damage and refills the pilot's hand. High redundancy across damage enablers like Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse ensures strong consistency even without heavy tutor packages. A secondary infinite win condition exists through Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank. However, the deck faces substantial exposure: wheels hand opponents seven fresh cards, giving them ample opportunities to draw answers against Nekusar before the table is closed out on Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barbed Shocker
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Collective Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crosis's Charm
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crypt of the Eternals
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fascination
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grixis Charm
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Incendiary Command
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Price of Knowledge
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Salt Marsh
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Manipulation
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Well of Ideas
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge